dad won out - our protein is chicken (since there are chicken type birds in the film) and it's a "cheesey chicken and veggie chowder". found the recipe and it looks good and uses a lot of "Bambi-esque" veggies. I'll also have roasted stuffed red potatoes, because I can.

That chowder looks good! And the angel food cakes do look like mushrooms and thus work beautifully with the theme. Bambi would be proud of you.

Cinderella...yipes. Well, pumpkin has to be featured in there somewhere. Keep in mind that it isn't just a sweet food. You could, for example, make pumpkin soup. And rice, for the wedding? I know, I know...I'm reaching a bit. Nothing related to glass or shoes comes to mind...yet.

yeah... pumpkin can't be featured too much, that is one of 3 foods my dad will NOT eat... so it'll be a dessert, that's just how it goes...

I can either go breakfast (she has a scene that she makes breakfast for her stepfamily) or I can go dinner and follow the menu at "cinderella's royal table" in WDW... kinda leaning towards dinner just because there's less chance of us having to deal with a lot of gluten substitutes...

No pumpkin? Alas. Can you use some other orange food and pretend? Carrots? Sweet potato?

You can always just say you're making a repast that would be served at the palace. You can also bake pumpkin-shaped cookies--they won't taste like pumpkin, after all, and all you need is a round shape and a stem. Maybe orange icing.